Argue not with a man whom you know to be of an obstinate temper, for when be is once contradicted his mind is barred against all light and information; argument, though ever so well grounded, provokes him, and makes him even afraid to be convinced of the truth. At a Paris hotel, a lady, rather excited, hastened down to the “ counting-house,” and asked hurriedly of one of those small, tightclad boys who are ou duty in that precinct, Have you the small-pox iu this house? ” The boy, who “perfectly understands English,” replied, “ No j but we expect it every minute, and, when it arrives, I will send it up,”
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Evening Star, Issue 3614, 22 September 1874, Page 2
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109Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 3614, 22 September 1874, Page 2
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